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■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Economics
What went wrong with economics
A general election called in Japan
Time's up for the LDP
The war in Afghanistan
Hold your nerve
Mark-to-market accounting
Divine intervention
Online gambling in Europe
Stacking the deck
Assisted suicide
Going gently

■Letters
On American health care, Russia, food, private schools, Angela Merkel

■Briefing
British forces in Afghanistan
And the soldier home from the hill
Correction: Uighurs

■United States
The Supreme Court
Empathy v law
Oversight of the Federal Reserve
Unwelcome attention
Congress's new health-care plan
Soak the rich
Investigating torture
Looking back in anger
Education reform in Massachusetts
A chance for charters
Online education
Raising Alabama
Latinos and religion
Separated brothers
Lexington
Glad to be godless

■The Americas
Bolivia's divisive president
The permanent campaign
Peru's reshuffled government
Playing for time
Mexico and the disabled
Lending a hand

■Asia
China's recovery
A fine balancing act
The Uighurs, Central Asia and Turkey
Troubles across Turkestan
Malaysia's opposition
Anwar holds the PAS
India and Pakistan
Sharm offensive
Child soldiers in Sri Lanka
Retraining Tiger cubs
Muslim insurgency in the Philippines
Jolo man
Banyan
End of the line for the LDP

■Middle East & Africa
Barack Obama and Africa
How different is his policy?
Equatorial Guinea's durable president
Oil makes friends of us all
An election in Iraqi Kurdistan
Change in the air?
Honour killings in Syria
The law changes. Will attitudes?
Iran's Mir Hosein Mousavi
Out of his shell
The Arabs' view of Iran
Mixed feelings

■Europe
Energy in Europe
He who pays for the pipelines calls the tune
German politicians and pipelines
Joschka Fischer v Gerhard Schröder
Turkey's fragile economy
Fund management
Silvio Berlusconi's success
In heaven or hell
Russia's north Caucasus
A mountain of troubles
Charlemagne
Playing the parliamentary game

■Britain
Rising youth unemployment
No way to start out in life
Private schools as charities
The axeman cometh
Energy and climate change
Show us the money
The spread of swine flu
Don't panic―yet
Organised crime
Making a killing [Britain only]
Care for the elderly
Nothing to write home about [Britain only]
Social trends
The decline of the English divorce [Britain only]
Bagehot
Tory splits!

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■International
The rights of Arctic peoples
Not a barren country

■Business
America's hospital industry
Taking a scalpel to costs
Drugs companies and poor countries
All together now
China and the Rio Tinto detentions
The steel fist of government
Kirin and Suntory discuss a merger
Kanpai!
Online gambling in Europe
A stacked deck
Spain tries to encourage start-ups
Nurturing the youngsters
Face value
Turning up the gas

■Briefing
The state of economics
The other-worldly philosophers

■Financial economics
Efficiency and beyond
Finance and Economics
Is Wall Street back to normal?
Keeping up with the Goldmans
Banks and bonuses
Going overboard
Private placements in Asia
Silent disaster
Buttonwood
Dropping a brick
The Big Mac index
Cheesed off
Reforming finance: Accounting standards
Marks and sparks
Economics focus
A partial marvel

■Science & Technology
Human spaceflight
Over the moon?
Biofuels from algae
Craig's twist
The search for dark matter
Ethereal yet weighty

■Books & Arts
Danton and the French revolution
Devoured by his own creation
The economics of Free
Nice but tricky
How betting online began
An easy birth
The world's earliest Bible
A good read
The race to the moon
Glory days
Wolfson museums of decorative art
Big Daddy and his awkward sons-in-law
Correction: Yuri Zhivago

■Obituary
John Bachar

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Brazil
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign-exchange reserves

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
California v Texas
America's future
Riots in Xinjiang
Beijing's nightmare
The great public-sector pension rip-off
Dodging the bill
India's budget
Have a little more patience with Mr Mukherjee
Regulating banks
Appetite suppressant
Mexico's mid-term election
The perils down south

■Letters
On the Elgin marbles, Romano Prodi, clearing houses, wine, drugs, fund management, voters, meritocracy

■Briefing
The riots in Xinjiang
Is China fraying?

■United States
California's budget crisis
Meltdown on the ocean
The economy and employment
On the turn?
Traffic congestion
Stalled
The crisis in dairy farming
Milking it
Health-care reform
Pay or play?
Cyber-bullying and the courts
Megan's law
Statewatch: Florida
Sorrow in the sunshine
Lexington
The passing of Palin

■The Americas
After Mexico's mid-term election
Calderón's hatful of troubles
Post-coup Honduras
Enter the diplomats
Brazil's scandal-plagued Senate
House of horrors
Swine flu in Argentina
Pigheaded policies

■Asia
The war in Afghanistan
Into Taliban country
India's budget
Hopes suspended
Turkmenistan, gas and stability
Elsewhere in Turkestan
Political confrontation in South Korea
Long, hot summer
Indonesia's president re-elected
No wonder why with SBY
Banyan
Blind-sided in Asia

■Middle East & Africa
Trouble in the United Arab Emirates
The perils of autocracy
The United Arab Emirates and Sudan
An odd deal over land
Iran's rebellious students
Go underground
Israel's economy
The government says it's perky

■Europe
The Russia/America summit
Barack, Dmitry―and (offstage) Vladimir
America and eastern Europe
Not captivating now
French sovereign debt
Of human superbondage
Unemployment in Spain
Two-tier flexibility
Bulgaria rejects its government
Borisov's turn
Croatia's new prime minister
The dilemmas of Diocletian
Charlemagne
A Belgian national champion

■Britain
Regulating banks
The devil's punchbowl
Outsourcing torture
Extraction
Britain-baiting in Iran
My Uncle Albion
The agritainment business
Hedge-fun managers
The politics of public-sector pay
Missed opportunity [Britain only]
Culling quangos
Ready for the chop? [Britain only]
The end of MG Rover
A death revisited [Britain only]
Bagehot
Pants on fire

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■International
Faith, economics and ecology
New sins, new virtues
Climate change talks
Wanted: fresh air
A cyber-warfare mystery
Ghost in the machine

■A special report on Texas
Lone Star rising
Tex-mix
Work hard. Be nice
Beyond oil
The red and the blue
The new face of America
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Hollywood in the recession
One-dimensional
Resuscitating the DVD
Floppy discs
Google v Microsoft
Breaking Windows
The Algosaibi and Saad groups
The fallout from a falling out
Exelon's takeover bid for NRG
Power struggle
Signs of hope for the car industry
Living on scraps
The bankruptcy of Christian Lacroix
End of season
Face value
Upwardly mobile

■Briefing
Public-sector pensions
Unsatisfactory state

■Finance and Economics
China and the dollar
Yuan small step
Buttonwood
Testing the model
Reforming finance: Bank capital
Target practice
Modifying delinquent loans
Mortgage mistakes
Venture capital in America
The brightest and the rest
Nomura's integration of Lehman
To “L” and back
Trade compression
Number crunch
Economics focus
Walk, don't run

■Science & Technology
Extending lifespan
Of mice and monkeys
Encouraging competitiveness
Psyched out
Sex ratios and maternal environment
Sons and mothers
Solar power and the Sahara desert
The start of something big?

■Books & Arts
China's future
Enter the dragon
The Taliban and drugs
What to do?
Henry Kissinger in 1973
A year to remember
Physics and philosophy
Much ado about nothing
Science and the Enlightenment
Gift of illumination
The Hermitage Amsterdam
Carousel of treasures

■Obituary
Robert McNamara

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, July averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Insurance

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
America and Russia
Welcome to Moscow
The coup in Honduras
Lousy president, terrible precedent
Financial reform in the EU
Neither one thing nor the other
Education in America and Britain
Learning lessons from private schools
The relaunch of Gordon Brown
The vision thing

■Letters
On schooling, Christina Romer, ethics, Brazil, Cambodia, Chevron, asylum seekers, pay, verbs

■Briefing
Russian-American relations
In search of détente, once again

■United States
Climate change, health care and the budget
A squeaker, with more to come
A comedian in the Senate
Eight months later
Green spending and stimulus
Curiously slow
A year at the Supreme Court
Fairness for firefighters
State budgets in crisis
Happy new year
Unemployment insurance
More money, more problems
Captain Hudson’s journey
Fair to foul and back again
Lexington
Two cheers for America

■The Americas
The coup in Honduras
Defying the outside world
Argentina’s mid-term election
Walloped
Brazil’s licensed thinker
A sage exits, maybe left
Mexico’s mid-term election
Tilting to the PRI
Conservation in Ecuador
Trees or oil

■Asia
Indonesia's presidential election
More of the same
India's new identity card
Peering into their murky world
Malaysia's racial-preference policy
Son versus sons
Japanese politics
A kick up the Aso
Thailand's lèse majesté law
Treason in cyberspace
Banyan
When the catfish stirs

■Middle East & Africa
Iran’s disputed presidential election
A hollow victory
Royalist politics in Morocco
The king’s friend
Fighting AIDS in Sudan
Imams, tea ladies and condoms
Meeting Somalia’s Shabab
The next jihad
Chinese aid to Africa
Spreading its bets, and its gold
South Africa and football’s World Cup
On goal for 2010

■Europe
Italy and the G8 summit
A cavalier preparing to host the world
Hip-hop in France
A hip-hop happening they had of it
Ukraine, Russia and gas
Energetic blackmail
Reforms in Turkey
Marching along
Albania’s tight election
Close but no government
Kosovo and media freedom
No criticism, please
Charlemagne
Those exceptional Swedes
Correction: Jan Fischer and Opel

■Britain
Gordon Brown's latest relaunch
The election starts here
New plans for schools
Never-ending story
Economic prospects
After the fall
ID cards for farm animals
Shepherd's warning
PFI deals in recession
Singing the blues [Britain only]
Private prisons
Criminal enterprises [Britain only]
Renationalising the railways
End of the line [Britain only]
Bagehot
The kindness of history

■International
World food prices
Whatever happened to the food crisis?

■Business
Corporate tax
Escaping the shakedown
Foreign oil firms in Iraq
Waiting game
Restructuring South Korea's chaebol
A helping hand
Corporate bankruptcies in America
The boom in busts
Airlines in the recession
Running on empty
The recession spurs self-service
Help yourself
Russia's dismal investment climate
Courting disaster
Face value
The alternative choice

■Briefing
Private schools in the recession
Staying on board

■Finance and Economics
Appraising the European Central Bank
Hard talk, soft policy
Buttonwood
Caveat creditor
Japanese banking liberalisation
Knocking down the wall
The rise of dark pools
Attack of the clones
Volatility in interest-rate swaps
Rate expectations
House prices and the wealth effect
Home discomforts
Bernard Madoff
The Madoff affair
Reforming finance: the EU's proposals
Divided by a common market
Economics focus
Put out
Award: Bill Emmott

■Science & Technology
New materials for renewable energy
The power of being made very small
A new way to keep hydrogen
Plumage power
Babies' names and the internet
Local yokels

■Books & Arts
Communism
Dead end
Russia's intelligentsia under communism
Yearning to be free
Barack Obama's presidential campaign
Man of the moment
Early British tourists
The rosbifs arrive
Raising goats
Nanny diaries
James Ensor at the Museum of Modern Art
Masked ball

■Obituary
Michael Jackson

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
High-net-worth individuals
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global mergers and acquisitions

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Health-care reform in America
This is going to hurt
Germany's inscrutable chancellor
The mystery of Mrs Merkel
Iran's crisis
It is far from over
Lord Elgin and the Parthenon marbles
Snatched from northern climes
Business-networking websites
Insider out
Ageing in the rich world
The end of retirement

■Letters
On Silvio Berlusconi, malaria, European institutions, blue-collar workers, freedom of information, debt, financial expectations, emissions, Asia, Peter Mandelson

■Briefing
Germany's chancellor
Merkel is the message

■United States
The recession and pay
The quiet Americans
Welfare claims surge
Helping the needy
The Voting Rights Act
Sacred, or outdated
Captain America
He's back
Cleaning the Great Lakes
Swimming with E. coli
Gays and the census
Counting them in
Statewatch: Washington
Not by aircraft alone
Lexington
The senator-in-chief

■The Americas
Coca and cocaine in the Andes
Mixed signals among the coca bushes
Drug policy in the Americas
At last, a debate
Venezuela's media
Chávez's bugbear
Municipal corruption in Canada
Water and grime

■Asia
India's Naxalites
A ragtag rebellion
Indian-held Kashmir
Grim up north
Taiwan's president and China
Sorry, the offer's closed
China's internet censors
Dammed if you do
North Korea's Myanmar links
Cocking a snuke
Myanmar's beleaguered Karens
On the run
Banyan
Burying Asia's savage past

■Middle East & Africa
The crisis in Iran
Is the dream already over?
Iran's debate over theocracy
Why the turbans are at odds
Security in Iraq
Is it getting worse again?
Somalia and its jihadists
A government under the cosh

■Europe
Germany's mediocre universities
On shaky foundations
France ponders a burqa ban
No cover up
Sarkozy addresses parliament
The state of the state
Troubled Ireland and Europe
Lisbon's last hope
Silvio Berlusconi's woes
A conqueror, not an end-user
Charlemagne
A hopper but not a pleaser
Correction: Eva Joly

■Britain
Racism
From the streets to the courts
TIFs and urban development
Regenerating cities
Dentists and the NHS
Toothache
The Conservatives in the EU
Eurochums
MPs choose a new figurehead
Laws, sausages, speakers [Britain only]
Wildcat strikes
Lockout [Britain only]
Setanta goes bust
Heroic failure [Britain only]
Bagehot
The last judgment

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■International
Migration and climate change
A new (under) class of travellers
The World Bank and the environment
When the learning curve is long

■A special report on ageing populations
A slow-burning fuse
Suffer the little children
A world of Methuselahs
The silver dollar
Scrimp and save
Work till you drop
China’s predicament
Into the unknown
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
LinkedIn v freemasons
Joining the club
Software that spots hidden networks
Electronic ties that bind
The recession hits Fininvest
Relegated
Formula One's civil war
Mosley submits
Anglo American spurns Xstrata
Anglophilia, Xstrataphobia
Sinopec buys Addax
Bottom of the barrel
GE and industrial loan companies
Parting company
Face value
Mr Clean

■Briefing
Reforming American health care
Heading for the emergency room

■Finance and Economics
Consumer spending in Asia
Shopaholics wanted
Buttonwood
Tied to the mast
Chinese IPOs resume
Thirst-quenching
Money-market funds under scrutiny
Sleep therapy
Friction in world trade
Duties call
The craze for clearing houses
Counter insurgency
Mortgage defaults in America
Can pay, won't pay
Economics focus
Deliver us from competition

■Science & Technology
A new display technology
Spots of innovation
The earliest granaries
Food for thought
Informed consent and virtual worlds
The avatar will see you now
Lightweight dinosaurs
Not so terrible
The evolutionary origin of depression
Mild and bitter

■Books & Arts
New Acropolis Museum opens
Milestones
Books on the credit crunch
First draft of history
Violence in eastern Anatolia
Give up the g-word
Constitutional democracy
Power to the people
Werner Herzog and “Fitzcarraldo”
Drama and melodrama
Correction: “Phèdre”

■Obituary
Ralf Dahrendorf

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Heroin prices
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
World's biggest bank losses

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Iran and the world
Iran rises up
Israel, Palestine and America
Both states must be real
Argentina's mid-term election
A chance to change course
Reforming financial regulations in America
Better broth, still too many cooks
Fund management
Competitive failure
Business in Japan
No exit

■Letters
On Georgia, Citigroup, British Columbia, antitrust policy, health care, Russia, executive pay, China

■Briefing
Iran's election
Demanding to be counted
Coverage of the protests
Twitter 1, CNN 0

■United States
Obama, Iran and North Korea
Meeting thuggery with coolness
Transport spending
Delays ahead
The health-care debate
Will the blue dogs bolt?
Keeping poultry in cities
Checking out the chicks
Mayoral control of schools in New York
Political prisoners
Church attendance in recessions
No rush for pews
The mayor of Los Angeles
Down and perhaps in
Cracking down on smoking
Marlboro Country no more
Lexington
Madame Secretary

■The Americas
Argentina's mid-term election
The glass empties for the Kirchners
Venezuela's oil-dependent economy
Socialism on the never-never
Mexico's drug war
All in the family
Canada's troubled nuclear industry
Ending a dream, or nightmare

■Asia
Politics in Thailand
Fading colours
Kazakhstan's purge
The knock on the door
Nepal's fragile new government
False start
Australia and anti-Indian violence
Regrettable facts
China's schistosomiasis scourge
Hello again, God of Plague
Gay rights in China
Comrades-in-arms
Banyan
Kim family saga: third and final act

■Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's hard sell
A warm welcome but little money
East Africa gets broadband
It may make life easier and cheaper
Lynching in Kenya
A routine crime
Israel's settlements
Grappling with America

■Europe
France and Africa
They came to bury him, not to praise him
Silvio Berlusconi and the press
Language problems
Russia and Western clubs
No thanks, Geneva
Hungary's opposition
A nasty party
Turkey and its army
Restive colonels and generals
Charlemagne
The danger of unemployment

■Britain
Reforming bank regulation
Turf wars in black tie
The future of the BBC
Auntie stumbling?
The future of broadband
And access for all
Inquiring into the Iraq war
Lessons to learn
Devolution finances
Still evolving [Britain only]
Applying for asylum
After the backlog, a backlog [Britain only]
Tax havens under pressure
Whiter than white [Britain only]
Bagehot
Blowback

■International
BRICs, emerging markets and the world economy
Not just straw men
The poor and the global crisis
The trail of disaster

■Business
Corporate restructuring in Japan
Breaking free
Saving jobs in Europe
Pain and pleasure
America's thriving gossip magazines
Rags to riches
Airbus and Boeing resume their feud
Hard pounding
The Saad and Algosaibi groups
Family fortunes
General Motors sells Saab
Unstable atom
Corporate hedging gets harder
The perils of prudence
Face value
Godly but ambitious

■Briefing
Fund management
Wasting assets

■Finance and Economics
Financial reform in America
New foundation, walls intact
TPG exits Shenzhen Development Bank
Money from another time
Explaining the oil-price rally
Taming a wild beast
CDSs and bankruptcy
No empty threat
Investment spending in China
Reap what you sow
Buttonwood
Not so fast
Economics focus
The lessons of 1937

■Science & Technology
Black holes on a desktop
Dumb insolence
High-tech dentistry
St Elmo's frier
A web of sound
Talk about that
Paternity and parental investment
Like father, like son

■Books & Arts
Art Basel 2009
Recession appeal
Liberty and terror
Paying the price
Women and jihad
A singular life
Richard Haass on Iraq
A good man in Washington
Britain's roads
Motor ways and wherefores
“Phèdre” at the National Theatre
A world first

■Obituary
Omar Bongo

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Unemployment
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
US corporate defaults

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Public debt
The biggest bill in history
Gordon Brown stumbles on
Reprieved
The worrying European elections
Trouble at the polls
Deforestation and carbon credits
Seeing REDD in the Amazon
Wall Street and the taxpayer
Thanks, for nothing
Sri Lanka after the war
Victory's rotten fruits

■Letters
On carbon taxes, Myanmar, Chevron in Ecuador, finance, MPs' expenses, guns

■Briefing
The Amazon
The future of the forest
Oil and land rights in Peru
Blood in the jungle

■United States
The politics of debt
Seeing red
The decennial census
The knock on the door
The Caperton v Massey case
Not for sale
Rural health reform
Small steps
Cracking down on illegal immigration
The Missouri way
Criminal law in California
A voice for the forsaken
Do charter schools work?
Time for a test
New York's new casino
A break at last
Lexington
The underworked American
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The Americas
Brazil's recovering economy
Ready to roll again
Waste disposal in Colombia
Muck and brass plates
Canadians abroad
Some are on their own

■Asia
America and China talk climate change
Heating up or cooling down?
Bangladesh's government
Keeping its head above water
The sex industry in Cambodia
The traffic police
Unrest in Uzbekistan
Fata Fergana
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Here comes trouble
Banyan
Chasing ghosts
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Middle East & Africa
Crisis in Sudan
The promise and peril of independence
South Africa's trade unions
Payback time?
Shell in Nigeria
Spilling over
Lebanon's election
A win for the West
Israel and America
A test of friendship

■Europe
The European elections
Swing low, swing right
France's victorious centre-right
Sarkozy on top
The Eurosceptic Dutch
Wilders rides in
Berlusconi loses ground
But still it moves
Germany looks to September
Merkel's mood music
Spain's People's Party wins
Rajoy ahoy
Scary elections in eastern Europe
Time to start fretting
Latvia's economic woes
Lat in the lurch
Charlemagne
The endless election round

■Britain
The survival of Gordon Brown
Stoppable force meets immovable object
The BNP's breakthrough
Booted and suited
Suing the Omagh bombers
Justice, of a sort
Secret evidence in court
Time to show your hand, or fold
The anti-terrorist hotline
Not very hot
Public and private pensions
Worlds apart
Bagehot
Peter's pet

■International
The UN's secretary-general
The score at half-time
Conserving forests
REDDy and waiting Previous print editions

■A special report on the euro area
Holding together
A tortuous path
One size fits none
No exit
The non-nuclear options
Fear of floating
Soft centre
Warmer inside
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Netbooks
Small but disruptive
Smart-phone wars
Pre conceived
Arcandor's bankruptcy
The till is bare
India's cheap housing boom
The nano home
The plight of Ford
A stony road
Executive pay in America
Principles, not pitchforks
Face value
Steel and brass

■Briefing
Government debt
The big sweat

■Finance and economics
Repaying TARP money
Hauled to safety
Buttonwood
Caught short
Banks' exposure to eastern Europe
Stand by me
Sovereign credit-default swaps
Muffled signals
America's life-settlement industry
From mortgages to mortality
The sale of BGI
Selling the family silver
The IMF's search for funds
Promises, promises
Paul Krugman's London lectures
Dismal science
Economics focus
Fatalism v fetishism

■Science & Technology
Solar-powered manned flight
Flying for ever
Positive thinking's negative results
Words of wisdom
Drug-resistant infections
Fighting superbugs
The science of ageing wine
Box clever
Anti-mist coatings
Not misty for me

■Books & Arts
An exhibition of medieval drawings
Images to delight and confound
The inefficiency of markets
Slaves to some defunct economist
Venezuela's curious coup
Riddle wrapped in a mystery
History of science
Crooked path to universal truth
Harold Varmus's life as a scientist
The journey of an inquiring mind
Anti-smoking activism
Puff by puff, inch by inch

■Obituary
Danny La Rue

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Oil reserves
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Stockmarkets

■The world this week
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■Leaders
The decline and fall of General Motors
Detroitosaurus wrecks
Gordon Brown
Where will it end?
Barack Obama and the Middle East
Tell it straight
Russia's ailing economy
Red square blues
The unloved European Parliament
From Strasbourg with indifference

■Letters
On small businesses, newspapers, California, Britain, Kuwait, Jeffrey Sachs, Crossrail, vroomtones

■Briefing
Russia's economy
A new sick man

■United States
The future of health-care reform
The moment of truth
The murder of George Tiller
Life v choice
Primaries in Washington state
The centrist north-west
Soaring gun sales in Arizona
Planning for the worst
Gun laws in Tennessee
Bread, milk, handgun
Statewatch: Indiana
A hobbled march forward
Lexington
Blue-collar America

■The Americas
Brazil's poor schools
Still a lot to learn
Argentina's Kirchners and the media
Bad news for some
Mexico tackles drug abuse
Breaking the habit
Cuba brings in austerity measures
Flickering lights

■Asia
Australia's carbon-emissions trading scheme
Coals from Newcastle
Dissent in China
A stab at reform
Hong Kong's identity crisis
Feeling special
Pakistan's war in Swat
After the exodus
The human cost of Sri Lanka's war
Too many heroes
The Philippines and the English language
E for English
Banyan
Does the elephant dance?

■Middle East & Africa
Barack Obama speaks to the Muslim world
Let's be friends
Iran's presidential election
No certain outcome
Palestinian disunity
No cause for joy
Zimbabwe's power-sharing government
The struggle goes on
Eritrea rebuked by Africa
From renaissance leader to pariah

■Europe
The apathetic European election
Wanted: a vigorous debate
Spain's troubled prime minister
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World Bank
Forgotten sibling
Pakistan's economy
Full fear and credit
Economics focus
Not quite so SAFE

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◆Science & Technology
Sir John Maddox
The nature of Nature
Treating cancer
Illuminating surgery
Robotics (I)
Polyphemus does the hoovering
Robotics (II)
Look, no wires

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◆Books & Arts
Britain between the wars
A sense of dread
José de San Martín
Argentine soldier, American hero
John Rae's diaries
The old boys' network
New fiction
Philipp Meyer's “American Rust”
Ivar Kreuger, the match king
A likeable rogue
Merce Cunningham
Lord of the dance

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◆Obituary
Eddie George

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Poverty
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Exchange rates against the dollar

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◆On the cover
Africa's next Big Man
If Jacob Zuma avoids becoming a caricature of African leadership, he could change the whole continent for the better

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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
South Africa's election
Africa's next Big Man
Democracy in India
India's jumbo election
American banks
Payback time
Technology and medicine
Fixing health care
Housing
Building castles of sand


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◆Letters
On General Electric, credit-default swaps, Germany, Afghanistan, co-operatives, crime, San Francisco, knees, politicians

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◆Special Report
South Africa's elections
Voting for the people's man

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◆United States
Immigration reform
All together now
Earthquakes
State of fear
The ex-president
Back in the saddle
Uranium mining
In Virginia's glowing hills
Moonshine
Lightning strikes
North Carolina
Pipettes at the ready
Musical diplomacy
Perfect pitch
Statewatch: Iowa
It's all relative
Lexington
Obama derangement syndrome


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◆The Americas
Cuba and the United States
It takes two to rumba
Bolivia's Evo Morales
Fasting and dealing
Mexico and climate change
What's hot, green and Mexican?
Brazil and climate change
Dancing with the bear


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◆Asia
Thailand's political crisis
Dousing the flames
Fiji's constitutional coup
Puppet show
Indonesia's election results
One winner, many losers
Health care in China
Will patients be rewarded?
Dialysis in China
Free for now
India's election
The untouchable and the unattainable
Banyan
The trouble with the king
Correction: Pakistan


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◆Middle East & Africa
Piracy off Somalia
Perils of the sea
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
A clear and present danger
Egypt versus Hizbullah
They really don't like each other
Congo's faltering economy
Too big to fail


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◆Europe
France's president
Super-Sarkozy falls to earth
Italy and Switzerland
A movable border
Greece's troubled government
An Aegean fog
The German economy
Clunk-clicked
Croatia and Europe
A Balkan state in balk
Protests in Moldova and Georgia
Street scenes
Charlemagne
Dragon nightmares


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◆Britain
Pakistan and Britain
The immigration superhighway
Police brutality
The camera is mightier than the sword
Helping carmakers
Underpowered
Housing market
A turning point of sorts


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◆International
Selection bias in politics
There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician...


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◆Business
Medicine goes digital
HIT or miss
Flying blind
Getting personal
A doctor in your pocket
Fantastic Voyage
Health 2.0
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Special Report
Health care in India
Lessons from a frugal innovator
Business in India
Salvaging the truth
MGM Mirage
Dicing with debt
Nintendo
Playing a new game
Internet regulation in France
Trois strikes and you're out
Business in Iraq
It's the economy, stupid
Face value
Keeper of the flame


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◆Finance & Economics
Home ownership
Shelter, or burden?


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◆Science & Technology
Banks
The audacity of hope
The world economy
Buckle down
Germany's bail-out
Too little, and late
Brazil's development bank
Central planning
Municipal bonds
Wakey wakey
Economic indicators
Googling the future
China's economy
Bamboo shoots of recovery
Economics focus
The curse of politics
Marjorie Deane internship


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◆Books & Arts
Autism and extraordinary ability
Genius locus
Conscious and unconscious thought
Incognito
Language and cognition
Twice blessed


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◆Obituary
South Africa
Going wrong
Islam
The choice facing Muslims
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Bare-knuckled capitalism
Renaissance Florence
Cradle of capitalism
Ian Fairweather
A reclusive Australian painter


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
New Zealand
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
House prices

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◆On the cover
A world without nuclear weapons
A nuclear-free world may never come about, but there can be safety in trying

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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon


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◆Leaders
Getting to zero
Safe without the bomb?
America, Europe and Turkey
Talking Turkey
The G20 and the IMF
Banking on the fund
Water rights
Awash in waste
Banks and accounting standards
Messenger, shot


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◆Letters
On the pope, illegal immigrants, advertising, China and the IMF, Iran, accounting standards, the Disability Rights Commission, aircraft, Barack Obama


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◆Special Report
North Korea's rocket
Making a splash


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◆United States
Barack Obama's foreign policy
Two cheers and a jeer
Defence budget
A daring punt
Oakland
Killing for respect
Conservation
Prairie in the city
Volunteering
A service nation
Transport systems
Slower than a speeding bullet
Gay marriage
Wedding season
Lexington
Reflections on Virginia Tech


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◆The Americas
The Summit of the Americas
The ghost at the conference table
The trial of Alberto Fujimori
An elected strongman brought to book
Venezuela's endangered democracy
Revolutionary justice
Chagas disease
Kiss and kill


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◆Asia
Sri Lanka's war
Out of the Tigers' cage
Pakistan's extremists
The slide downhill
Afghanistan's new militias
Self-defence
Chinese unemployment
Where will all the students go?
China and the G20
Taking the summit by strategy
Banyan
In the shade of the banyan tree


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◆Middle East & Africa
The genocide in Rwanda
The difficulty of trying to stop it happening ever again
Nigeria
What if the president goes?
Southern Sudan
Fear of fragmentation
Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Where will they all go?
Getting paid in Iraq
Press the button
Correction: South Africa


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◆Europe
An earthquake in Italy
Death in the mountains
Turkey and Barack Obama
Friends by the Bosporus
France and America
Allies of a kind
Denmark's prime ministers
Rasmussens abound
The troubled Baltics
Still afloat in the Baltic, just
Spain’s government
Shuffle, shuffle
Charlemagne
A surfeit of leaders


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◆Britain
Local-government finances
Bust in the boonies
Council budgets
Less is more
Allotments
Take this job and shovel it
The Catholic church
Time for a bruiser


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◆International
Water
Sin aqua non
Climate change
When glaciers start moving

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◆Business
Activist investors
Flight of the locusts
New vehicles
General Motors' strange new prototype
Spanish companies
Big in America?
Energy in Japan
Raising the stakes
American broadcasting
The not-so-big four
Edible advertisements
Trading licks
European defence
Heavy going
Face value
Sauce of success


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◆Special Report
The IMF
Mission: possible
Special Drawing Rights
Held in reserve


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◆Finance & Economics
Financial markets
Whistling in the dark
Buttonwood
Spin and substance
Trade finance
The cavalry of commerce
The Federal Reserve
Sacred territory
Indian banks
For I'm a jolly good fellow
Japanese banks
A capital affair
Psychology and trading
Stress testing
Economics focus
Cycle-proof regulation
Marjorie Deane internship


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◆Science & Technology
Malaria
Resistance is useless
The environment
Biofools
Pre-Cambrian life
The dawn of the animals
Neurology
Wired


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◆Books & Arts
Energy and climate change
Meltdown
Islam and the West
What to think?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
An African first
Lessons from ants
Wisdom of crowds
Dorothy Wordsworth
Woman on the edge
The baroque
High notes and curlicues


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◆Obituary
Helen Levitt

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Dutch flower auctions